Wuth, Eliza (nee Watson) (1841 - 1925)

Born
in Athens, Greece, c.1841; died on 26 June 1925.

Born to Richard Henry Watson (1808-1868)
and Marae nee Caraboora. The Watsons were pioneering
settlers in Qld. In 1854, Eliza's father married Sarah nee Clark
and they had ten children. In 1861, Eliza married Ernest
Magnus Wuth, a doctor at Dalby. They had seven children.
The Wuths selected land at Springsure in 1868.

Eliza
collected MEL specimens at Springsure Mountains, n.d.

Her
husband also collected MEL specimens, including the type
of Tetracera wuthiana F.Muell. (1876), named for him.

Eliza
and her husband seem to have become estranged, and he
disappears from records after resigning as resident surgeon
of the Townsville Hospital in 1882.

Eliza and her children
remained in Springsure, and she died in 1925 aged 84.